Last Updated June 15 2026
1 Introduction
Welcome to the website of Coastguard Collective Bargaining CCB. We are an independent grassroots campaign group dedicated to securing a democratic voice protecting worker rights and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the UK Coastguard Rescue Service. CCB respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy informs you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website interact with our campaign or contact us. It also tells you about your privacy rights under UK law including the UK General Data Protection Regulation UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
2. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect use store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have categorized into several groups. Identity Data includes your first name last name or username. Contact Data includes your email address telephone numbers and postcode which is primarily used to help you identify your local MP.
Employment and Operational Data is collected if you are a serving Coastguard Rescue Officer CRO using our secure areas and may include information regarding your role station region or rank to verify your status. Testimonial Data includes real world stories case studies or impact statements you voluntarily submit to help highlight the financial and operational strain of the MCA proposals. Technical Data includes your internet protocol IP address browser type and version time zone setting operating system and platform used to access this site.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through direct interactions and automated technologies. You may give us your Identity Contact or Testimonial Data by filling in forms on our website signing up for campaign updates or emailing us directly. If you are a serving CRO seeking access to our private secure communication channels we collect information to verify your identity against operational realities. As you interact with our website we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment browsing actions and patterns via cookies and similar technologies.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly we will use your personal data to coordinate the campaign manage your updates provide printable templates on our Downloads Page such as the MP lobbying letter and keep you informed about campaign milestones within our critical timeline. We also use your data to verify membership and status ensuring that our private strategy channels remain strictly restricted to verified CROs and GMB members. If you share your personal testimony regarding how the MCA directive affects your family business or community we will only share or publish it with your explicit consent and you can choose to keep your testimony entirely anonymous.
5. Data Sharing and Third Parties
CCB is a campaign group working closely alongside the GMB Union to seek formal voluntary recognition and represent workforce density. We do not sell your data to third parties. We do not share your personal information with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency MCA or senior leadership without your explicit democratic mandate. Our website contains links to external sites including the GMB Union joining page via https www gmb org uk join gmb the official UK Parliament Petition portal and our media asset download folders on PicDrop via https www picdrop com swagger productions CCB. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
6. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost used or accessed in an unauthorized way altered or disclosed. In addition we limit access to your personal data to those core campaign committee members who have an operational need to know. For example reference files embedded within our digital infrastructure are strictly managed to ensure our public visual identity remains uncompromised and secure.
7. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for including for the purposes of satisfying any legal accounting or reporting requirements. Because our primary campaign operates under an urgent and highly time sensitive framework leading up to and past the September 2026 directive deadline we will review our database periodically to ensure we do not hold unnecessary data once the dispute or campaign concludes.
8. Your Legal Rights
Under UK data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data. These include the right to request access to your personal data request correction of your personal data request erasure of your personal data object to the processing of your personal data request restriction of processing your personal data and withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your data. If you wish to exercise any of these rights please contact us at our dedicated campaign email address: contact@sos-crs.co.uk
9. Contact Details
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data protection practices please contact our committee by emailing our dedicated address or checking the support guidelines inside WEBSITE CONTENT_3.pdf. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner s Office ICO the UK regulator for data protection issues. We would however appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns ourselves before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
